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What a disturbing, insidious loving movie. At least Get Out had manners enough to punch you in the face; it wasn't nice, but you knew what it was about. This one just creeps. What keeps staying with me is how much of the movie doesn't make any goddamn sense, to a point where it has to be deliberate. The whole thing's running on nightmare logic. Like, as the easiest example? The mirror forest is on the beach. Specifically -- and somewhat oddly -- directly on the goddamn sand. Do you know what you can't do on the beach? Dig down, that's what. Beaches are, y'know, not exactly renowned for the rich deposits of bedrock they sit on. And yet there isn't just a basement level -- where they keep the electricals, because it's not like that would ever flood -- but it goes down, and down, and down again until all of a sudden it's going down in a richly appointed escalator to a huge, immaculate subterranean complex that's never actually maintained by anyone. It's pure dream logic, the way the mind will wander in circles suddenly obsessed with the whole "going down" concept before abruptly switching gears again because in a dream, any transitional space can lead anywhere else. Or, for another topic, where do they get all their clothes? Why do most of the clothes match the surface level exactly, but Adelaide's prize t-shirt was an inexact mockery of Red's? Where'd the endless supply of jumpsuits, gloves, and scissors come from? Or, hey! How the loving hell does the bond between Tethered and surface people work, exactly? Red explains it as an inherent property of the Tethered, but that doesn't work at all, because she's not Tethered and Adelaide clearly controlled her, not vice versa -- "I never would have danced if not for you", don't forget. So just... whoever's upstairs controls whoever's downstairs? And by the way, who's controlling who again? Because Tethered Midway Guy is holding up the t-shirt before Adelaide decides what she wants, and he has no other "prizes". So either that tableau was being controlled from downstairs or there's elements of predestination at work here. Again and again, it's scratchy, weird, works-the-way-it-needs-to-work-this-second-for-the-narrative-to-keep-going dream logic. Also, I really don't understand the rabbit imagery apart from "rabbits are frequently experimented upon as lab animals", which I suspect is a somewhat facile reading, and I'd dearly love to know more about what that narration track was saying in the mirror forest the first time, because it sounded like a creation myth, and if it was, it's probably somewhat on-topic. Death By The Blues posted:Also the entire tethered people reenacting the surface level actions at the carnival flashback, are a false memory and never happened. It is "Red" remembering her surface life and what lead down to her being there. It is her filling the gaps of what happened/what she remembered as the real Adelaide a bunch of half true memories. CapnAndy fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Mar 24, 2019 |
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